| Country life - 1852 - 608 pages
...a year is saved, but if they cannot, the seed may be sown either in October, or in April, as early as the ground can be worked. The seed should be sown in drills, and when up, as soon as the plants are two inches high, they should be thinned out to about four inches... | |
| Country life - 1852 - 618 pages
...a year is saved, but if they cannot, the seed may be sown either in October, or in April, as early as the ground can be worked. The seed should be sown in drills, and when up, as soon as the plants are two inches high, they should be thinned out to about four inches... | |
| Francis Brill - Seeds - 1872 - 168 pages
...sufficiently over the head to protect it from alternate freezing and thawing rather than from the frost. As early .in the spring as the ground can be worked, the soil must be removed from the heads by plowing away, and carefully using the hoe ; and the outer leaves... | |
| Kansas State Horticultural Society - Fruit-culture - 1881 - 526 pages
...poorly-prepared piece of land would result in failure. All classes of trees, except Evergreens, should be planted as early in the spring as the ground can be prepared. The best method for planting young, say one-year-old forest trees, that I have practiced,... | |
| Agriculture - 1886 - 450 pages
...its easy culture and long continuance of blooming, secures for it a place in every flower gardenSweet Peas must be planted as early in the spring as the...ways. Having prepared the ground and made the drills the desired depth, drop the seed and draw into the drill earth enough to cover the seed two inches... | |
| Kansas State Horticultural Society - Fruit-culture - 1889 - 522 pages
...States farther north, it makes a fine addition to the flower garden in the early part of the season if planted as early in the spring as the ground can be worked. Verbenas: May be treated as annuals if the seed is sown in hotbeds early in the spring, at the time... | |
| Kansas State Horticultural Society - 1889 - 518 pages
...States farther north, it makes a fine addition to the flower garden in the early part of the season if planted as early in the spring as the ground can be worked. Verbenas: May be treated as annuals if the seed is sown in hotbeds early in the spring, at the time... | |
| Kansas State Horticultural Society - Fruit-culture - 1889 - 516 pages
...States farther north, it makes a fine addition to the flower garden in the early part of the season if planted as early in the spring as the ground can be worked. Verbenas: May be treated as annuals if the seed is sown in hotbeds early in the spring, at the time... | |
| Ida Dandridge Bennett - Floriculture - 1903 - 382 pages
...the sun, the Sweet-pea loves to plunge its roots deep in the cool, moist earth, and the seed should be planted as early in the spring as the ground can be worked, or, better yet, in the fall. This late fall planting has much to recommend it, as there is more leisure... | |
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